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Brazilian begomovirus populations are highly recombinant, rapidly evolving, and segregated based on geographical location.
Journal of virology - 1 May 2013
Rocha Carolina S, Castillo-Urquiza Gloria P, Lima Alison T M, Silva Fábio N, Xavier Cesar A D, Hora-Júnior Braz T, Beserra-Júnior José E A, Malta Antonio W O, Martin Darren P, Varsani Arvind, Alfenas-Zerbini Poliane, Mizubuti Eduardo S G, Zerbini F Murilo
Abstract excerpt
The incidence of begomovirus infections in crop plants sharply increased in Brazil during the 1990s following the introduction of the invasive B biotype of the whitefly vector, Bemisia tabaci. It is believed that this biotype transmitted begomoviruses from noncultivated plants to crop species with greater efficiency than indigenous B. tabaci biotypes. Either through rapid host adaptation or selection pressure in...
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